"The fact that Germany was rearming was an open secret - the allies (victors of WW1) did nothing to stop that happening and when volunteers attempted to stop the rise of Fascism they were criminalised by the security agencies as "premature anti fascists" - (1936.18939) - premature my arse!!
As this is about royalty - did you know that a couple of weeks ago the law making it illegal to criticise Henry VIIIs marriage to Ann Boleyn was removed from the statute books - that's how anachronistic royalty is.
You become aware of it Joe; it's as much part of British history as is the fact that The South and North once went to war over slavery - long time ago, but hopefully, never forgotten.
"Seems to me, that the better response would be to ask why the Royals were sympathetic to the Nazis."
Quite agree, but the first hurdle is to get people to accept that they did and that is was important.
There's an interesting novel, well worth reading, entitled 'Dominion' (C.J. Sansome), which speculates on what Britain would have been like had we surrendered at Dunkirk - (not a history book certainly, but it can be bought in "real bookshops").
One of the most memorable incidents was a description of the Jews being rounded up in Warren Street, in London's West End and carted off to an unknown destination.
Fiction, certainly, but this was what those supporting Nazism in pre-war Britain were signing up to - there, but for the grace of God.
Jim Carroll